Oh, how I wish I was there right now:

Frequently, I am overly dramatic. Yes, it is probably obvious from the photographs.

Let me explain the title of the post. Long ago there was a show named Cheers, staring Shelley Long as the self important intellectual Diane Chambers and Woody Harrelson, as Woody, the hay seed. Ted Danson was also there as the only Red Sox player anyone in my family could ever identify.

So Woody’s father back in Hanover, Indiana demanded in one episode that his dear, sweet son return home. To keep Woody in Boston, Woody’s friends at Cheers made a movie to convince his father to let him stay. Diane saw the movie, got a hold of it and remade it into her masterpiece “Man-child in Beantown,” inadvertently giving rise to one of the my favorite lines from all of TV-Dom — when Woody’s father saw the movie he said it was “too derivative of Goddard.” How I do miss smart TV.

Well, on my recent sojourn through Boston, I thought of the Man-child and his time in Beantown and I thought these photos would have fit perfectly with Diane and her drama:

I wanted this to look like something you’d see on the wall in an old house:

But I felt his presence in this photo: